Hope you can come to the huge Air Show in Detroit, August 7 and 8. Seven B17s will be flying in to the show, along with 100 other military planes...
For a discussion on how historians muck up history in their striving to revise, click on...
May I suggest my novel, A REAL GOOD WAR, acclaimed by critics at N.Y. Times, Publishers Weekly, Miami Herald, Kirkus Reviews, San Antonio Express,...
I've been informed that PBS has scheduled a new documentary due in a few months about the Air War in WW2. Earlier documentaries tended to...
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Although German resources were increasingly diminished during the last year of the war, Allied bombers were opposed by an accelerated increase in...
To urqh --- Yes, since you asked, I was born in the U.S.A, and any civlians who might have been stupid enough to kill the perpetrators of 9/11...
Thanks for the compliments, boys. I really don't deserve them, but come to think of it, I have a helluva bunch of arthritis in both knees and I...
I can very well understand and empathize with the emotion of a person who has seen his family destroyed by aerial bombardment. The strong feelings...
Reading all these great WW2 stories related by grandsons and nephews, who now regret they didn't delve for more stories while Grandpa John or...
By summer 1944, confirmed reports of hangings, shootings, and beatings to death of Allied airmen captured by angry mobs and police had so...
Mr. Slipdigit My primary reaction while visiting Hitler's 1944 3rd Reich with its delightful tourist attractions such as Berlin, Hamburg,...
Erich --- Thanks for the prompt reply. You are right. I'm looking for more 17s and more escort.
I am seeking photos of B17s in formation with fighter escort for my website. Any photos will be credited and, of course, appreciated. b17sam
The title of this thread caught my eye, because it resonates with whatI I've been trying to do (without much success} ever since I returned home...
This is in appreciation and an addition to JC Falkenberg's stripping the romance out war. It is an attempt to do the same for the Air War in WW2....
Free Beer Tomorrow, the 63rd anniversary of my 35th and final mission on 3February45. For full details, see sign when you click on B-17 B-24...
Martin - Can we have time, point, and i.d. Duxford on Saturday 9 July? Sam Halpert www.b17sam.com
I hope to catch a glimpse of her. I have been invited along with a thousand other veterans to have lunch at Buckingham Palace at 2 pm, July 12....
